"The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into……" — Anaxagoras
"The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution."
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18 Quotes by Anaxagoras
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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